| Submit your comments on this article |
| Home Front: Culture Wars |
| Winnie joins ex-gang leader plea |
| 2005-12-08 |
| South Africa's Winnie Mandela has appealed to the governor of California to halt the execution of reformed gang leader Stanley "Tookie" Williams. "If we forgave what was done Williams, 51, was sentenced to death in 1981 for the murder of four people. Co-founder of the notorious Los Angeles Crips street-gang, he denies committing the 1979 murders. Williams faces death by lethal injection on 13 December at San Quentin prison, north of San Francisco. While in jail, he has won praise for his anti-gang books, earning several Nobel Peace Prize nominations for his teachings. He has generated a public campaign calling for clemency. California's Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is expected to hold a clemency review on Thursday. At a news conference, Ms Mandela said that, in a recent visit she made to the US, Mr Schwarzenegger had refused to meet her because it conflicted with the law. Good on ya Arnie, she ain't worth your time. "I regret it very much that a man who has wined and dined with comrade Mandela in his home would react in this manner," she added. and Winnie, please tell us about YOUR current connection to "comrade Mandela." The anti-apartheid campaigner also said that if Williams was executed, she would follow through on his request that he Ms Mandela remains a controversial political figure in South Africa following her divorce from Nelson Mandela and convictions for kidnapping, |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #5 When they can resurrect the victims who had neither due process nor appeals, come talk to me about amnesty. |
| Posted by: Threarong Sholump2965 2005-12-08 21:08 |
| #4 I have a real simple test on what is right and wrong: If the left hates it, it musty be right. The left hates tax cuts? They must be right. They oppose the war? Must be right. The inverse is also true: what the left likes must be wrong. They want socialized health care, so it must be bad. They want to spring a convicted multiple killer, well we know that must be wrong. If he gets a commuted sentence that next step will be to make him a citizen of Paris and demand his release. |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2005-12-08 16:25 |
| #3 tu3031:Exactly my thoughts... |
| Posted by: BigEd 2005-12-08 16:00 |
| #2 Does Winnie know that we don't throw tires over them and set them on fire when we put these people down? I mean, that would be, like, cruel and unusual punishment... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2005-12-08 14:46 |
| #1 The anti-apartheid campaigner also said that if Williams was executed, she would follow through on his request that he be buried or have his ashes scattered in South Africa. Would those ashes include the tire? |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2005-12-08 14:45 |